Weatherproof socket for electric lamps.



G. W. GOODRIDGE. WEATHERPROOF SOCKET FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1, 1908.

YX\TNE%E% J INVENTOR' My Y 2% w ATTOKNE vs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GII JBERT W. GOODRIDGE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRYANT ELECTRIC COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTI- our. I

WEATHERPROOF sooner r03 ELECTRIC LAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 7, 1909- Application filed June 1, 1908. Serial No, 435,972.

55 provide on'the rear of the body two recesses To all whom it may concern: to receive brass or other metal terminal Be it known that I, GILBERT W. Goooplates D, D, carrying bindin screws 03, d. RIDGE, a citizen of the United States of These two plates are arrange over two di- America, residin in the city of Bridgeport, ametrically opposite holes of, the four men- .5 in the county Fairfield, in the State of tioned, and these holes are of such a size as 60 Connecticut, have invented a certain 'new to receive tubular rivets or eyelets r, r, Fig. and useful Improved Weatherproof Socket 1, the ends of the rivets passing through corfor Electric Lamps, of which the following res onding holes in the terminal lates D, D,

is a specification. an retaining the plates fixed in their re- My invention relates particularly to that cesses, when the eyelet/ends are flanged or 65 type of electric lamp sockets which are riveted to the plates or to the inner face of known as Weatherproof bracket sockets, that e b dy TO 't fl S and C h is, sockets which are constructed for outdoor e n soldered the ends of wires 6, 7, and the and weatherproof use and are to be secured Opposite ends of these wires are inserted to pipes or other fixtures instead of being through the tubular rivets or eyelets 'r, 1', 70v

suspended by the conductor wires. Heretoand soldered to their respective wire termifore sockets of this t pe have been manu- Ilal plates D, D, F ig. 1. Insulating comfactured with the lea wires soldered to the pound is now poured into the space back of two terminals of the lamp holder and passthe lamp receiving terminals S, C, through ing out through a hole or holes in the porthe hole a, to make the socket water-proof. 75 celain with insulation on the wires, insulat- The back of the socket is closed by a cap E ing compound being poured in around. the of metal with the usual threaded nipple e, by

outwardly extending wires to make the ir which the socket may be screwed to a pi or terior weatherproof. When fixture men or bracket. To the inner face of the cap seothers wanted bracket sockets with extra cure'a paper or other suitableinsulating lin- 80 long lead wires, they had to order them speing e which I extend well into the nipple e, cial ymade up at the factory, and oftentimes, so that the end of the pipe will be protected when they got the sockets where they were from coming into contact with the wires. to be put up, the wiremen'would find that The cap is secured-1n place by screws 8, 8,

they ad lead wires much longer than passing through the cap from the back and 85 needed, and consequently there would be threaded into'flan'ed bushings 9, 9, Fig. 2,

so much waste wireto be out off and thrown in the back of the ody A. A rubber gasket away. R is preferably fitted around the back of the By my. invention hereinafter described, body "A, where the rim of the cap fits down I am enabled to provide a bracket socket' over it. v 90 without lead wires and yet thoroughly By the construction described, I have proweatherpro'of. vided a weatherproof socket with outside In the'accompanying drawings Fi re 1 is terminal plates for ready attachment of the a a section on the line 1-1, Fig. 3; l i g. 2 is .line wires, and dispensing with the customa section on the line 22, Fig. 3; Fig. 3 ary lead wires projecting out through the 95 is a plan view with the cap removed; cement at the back.

Fig. 4 is a view of the cap; Fig. 5 is a per- -I claim as my inventionspective view of the back of the body of the 1. Aweatherproof bracket socket, comprissocket without its cap. ing an insulating body with lamp-holding A is the cylindrical body of the socket terminals therein, terminal plates with bindmade of porcelain or other'suitable insulatin screws on the back of the insulating ing material and adaptecl to receive within bol an inclosing and supporting cap for its 0 en end the usual lamp receiving t-erthe back of the socket, electrical connections mina s consisting of the screw shell S and from the lamp holding terminals to said 5O central terminal C separated by the insulatplates, and insulating com und fillin the 1 ing button B, of porcelain or other suitable space in the body back of t e lamp holding material.. I form in the back end of this terminals. g body A a central hole a and foursmaller 2.-Aweatherproof brsmket socket, compris- 1 holes spaced around the central hole, and I ing an insulating bod with"'lamp-holdin terminals therein, terminal plateswith bin 'ing screws on the back of the insnlating In testimony whereof I have signed my body, eyelets securing said plates in place, an name to this specification, in the presence of 10 inclosing and supporting cap for the back of two subscribing witnesses.

'} the socket, wires connecting the lamp liold- GILBERT W GOODRIDGE '5 ing terminals to said plates through the eye lets and insulating com ound filling the Witnesses: space in thebody back 0 the lamp-holding A. H. JONES, terminals. H. W. Gonnsnonoucn. 

